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Tragedy and Laughter on the Road to Oblivion
Max Howell was an international rugby player for Australia (the Wallabies) who played 32 times for Australia and retired at 20 years of age. He was from a very poor home and concluded that he had to go to University if he wished to get ahead. This autobiography is the struggle of an impoverished lad in search of a pupose in life. He became the first Australian to get a doctorate degree in physical education/ sport science/ human movement studies.He was adjudged at Berkeley to be the most outstanding athlete in all the so-called minor sports, despite some having medals from the Olympics and others being national champions.Dr Howell was hired at the University of British Columbia, began the fi...
Wallaby Legends
Sports guru and commentator Peter Meares, together with renowned author and academic Max Howell, profile the top fifty legends of rugby union in compelling and vivid detail. In what will be a controversial list players from the first test of 1884 to the present day are included. Detailing the highs and lows of their careers, colour photographs and detailed statistics, this book is essential for rugby fans of all ages.
Foundations of Physical Education
An outline for students of the academic side of physical edcuation. Covers the physiology of exercise, biomechanics, sociology of sport, psychology of sport and the history of sport in Australia.
The Prehistories of Baseball
Baseball's roots lie deep in our ancestral past. The ancient arts of throwing (distance warfare), hitting (close quarters combat), and running (attack and retreat) were woven into the earliest forms of baseball. Early humans recognized the importance of the sun and sought to placate it with sacrificial offerings, imitating its movements and deifying it. Myths and relics of these foundational practices and beliefs were carried westward across the Old World by Indo-European peoples. Games for the early British and Continental Europeans (notably the Celts and Druids) served military, religious, social and educational needs. As the Celts and Druids came under the control of the Roman Empire, and...
Making a Middle Class
Using a rich array of archival and quantitative sources, and oral testimony from ex-students across Canada, Axelrod explores the characteristics and significance of university life during a trying decade. He describes who went to university, what they were taught, how they amused themselves, how they responded to the pressing political issues of the day, and what became of them after graduation. Axelrod argues that these students shared the aspirations of middle-class communities elsewhere. Dreading the prospect of downward social mobility, they craved the status a university degree and professional credentials might produce. Accordingly, they forged an associational life on campus that chal...
Game Plan
How deep is the importance and influence of organized sports in Alberta? Discover key episodes and players in the history of Alberta's organized sports and read how sport shaped the lives of individuals as well as of communities of indigenous people, settlers, and immigrants. Read new perspectives on well-known sports stories along with tales of lesser-known games that remained on the margins of most histories for reasons of race, class, and gender. Whether a spectator, supporter, scholar, or fan, readers will be informed and delighted by the research contained in this sport history.
The Sporting Scots of Nineteenth-century Canada
This book examines the role of the Scots in the development of Canadian sport. The evidence from the wide range of primary and secondary sources cited by the author proves that the Scottish contribution was significant.
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Convicts and the Arts
There are a considerable number of books on the art of the convicts, so Convicts & Art has been covered reasonably well but art is only once facet of the arts that has been examined to any extent. This book concerns itself with Convicts & the Arts. This book, then, endeavors to look at the convicts’ contribution to the arts, and demonstrates without doubt that the convicts made a significantly broader contribution to the culture of Australia than previously thought. There is a common misconception that all convicts were immediately institutionalised in a cell, and convict culture was solely a prison culture. It needs reinforcing that when the First Fleet arrived there were no prisons in Au...
